[The reservoir hosts and vectors of Borrelia--the causative organisms of ixodid tick-borne borrelioses in Russia].
327 Borrelia isolates from ixodid ticks of 3 species from 12 major administrative territories of Russia (from Leningrad Province in the west to Sakhalin Province in the east), as well as from forest myomorph rodents of 6 species and from skin biopsies of borreliosis patents, were identified by the PRC and RFLP methods. B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. garinii NT29 were shown to be widespread in Russia. No other Borrelia genospecies were found. The main vectors of B. afzelii and B. garinii were ixodid ticks Ixodes persulcatus and I.ricinus and their main reservoir hosts were forest myomorph rodents. In natural foci Borrelia mixed infection was observed among reservoir hosts and vectors. This determines the possibility and considerable probability of human infection caused by several Borrelia genospecies simultaneously.
Korenberg
E I
EI
Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia.
Gorelova
N B
NB
Postic
D
D
Kovalevskiĭ
Iu V
IuV
Baranton
G
G
Vorob'eva
N N
NN
D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D001898:Borrelia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001899:Borrelia Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology*; D009115:Muridae / Q000382:microbiology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012426:Russia; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology
Rezervuarnye khoziaeva i perenoschiki borreliĭ--vozbuditeleĭ iksodovykh kleshchevykh borreliozov v Rossii.